Arduino crashes on startup

PlatformIO Core
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Hey together,

I am creating a project to control and measure the temperature and humidity in my terrariums using an Arduino Uno. I have a lot of code by now and suddenly the arduino crashes in the setup routine.

Here is the output of the Serial:

imanuel@imanuel-inspiron ~/P/terrarium-measure-and-control> pio device monitor

--- Available ports:
---  1: /dev/ttyACM0         'Goodix Fingerprint Device'
---  2: /dev/ttyUSB0         'USB2.0-Serial'
--- Enter port index or full name: 2
--- Miniterm on /dev/ttyUSB0  9600,8,N,1 ---
--- Quit: Ctrl+C | Menu: Ctrl+T | Help: Ctrl+T followed by Ctrl+H ---
Init display
Create epd
Create paint
Init epd
Clear frame memory
Set width an␀

This is the code of the setup routine:

Serial.begin(9600);
Serial.println(F("Init display"));

display->setup();
display->clear();
display->displayText(F("Initializing..."), 0);

Serial.println(F("Init clock"));
clock->setup();

Serial.println(F("Init humidity sensor"));
humiditySensor->setup(2);

Serial.println(F("Init dimmer"));
dimmer->setup(3);

Serial.println(F("Init temperatures"));
coldSideThermometer->setup(5, 0);
hotSideThermometer->setup(5, 1);

Serial.println(F("Init relay"));
relay->setup(6);

Serial.println(F("Init sender"));
sender->setup(A0, A1);
display->clear();

auto ip = sender->getIp();
display->displayTextTopRight(ip);

It does run through though, if I uncomment the following lines:

Serial.println(F("Init clock"));
clock->setup();

Serial.println(F("Init sender"));
sender->setup(A0, A1);

The code inside the functions is as follows, for the clock->setup method

#include <RTClib.h>

auto rtc = new RTC_DS3231();
rtc->begin();

In the method sender->setup the code is as follows:

#include <SoftwareSerial.h>
#include <EEPROM.h>
#include <eeprom/EEPROMAccess.h>
#include "Sender.h"

Serial.println(F("Init ESP8266"));
EEPROM.begin();
auto serial = new SoftwareSerial(txPin, rxPin);
esp8266 = new ESP8266(*serial);
auto ssid = EEPROMAccess::readString(0);
auto passphrase = EEPROMAccess::readString(34);
esp8266->setOprToStationSoftAP();
esp8266->joinAP(ssid, passphrase);
esp8266->enableMUX();
esp8266->startTCPServer(8080);
esp8266->setTCPServerTimeout(10);

The packages I have installed have the following ids:

  • 64
  • 19
  • 31
  • 54
  • 83
  • 127

Can someone help me?

Greetings Knerd

2

Hard to reproduce without the full code. If your setup is extremely long, you might get problems with a watchdog. Does calling wdt_disable(); first in setup() help (reference)? If you shuffle around the order of initializations in setup(), does it change where the ESP crashes?

3

Thanks for your reply, I just got pointed out on reddit, I should name which Arduino I use. I am using an Arduino Nano which connects to the ESP8266 via SoftwareSerial.

The full code is here: GitHub - DerKnerd/terrarium-measure-and-control

4

Does the firmware crash / hang when you do this as a first thing in setup()? Have you tested each initialization in isolation?

5

Running them in isolation, only the sender crashes.